Wine & Dine Wisconsin 2012 takes over the Delta Center Saturday and Sunday, and it's the perfect event for like-minded folks to gather together. Like, people who like cheese. People who like beer. People who like wine. People who like all of the above.

One regrettable, if inevitable, occurrence during a film festival is that films you want to see often play opposite each other. That occurs Sunday at the Milwaukee Film Festival with parallel screenings of "The Act of Killing" (Downer Theatre) and "Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me" (Fox-Bay Cinema Grill), both at 8 p.m.

"The Act of Killing" is an appalling yet compelling and strangely beautiful documentary in which the Indonesian gangsters and paramilitary group members who killed 1 million Chinese "communists" in 1965 re-create their crimes as surreal movie scenes. | Oct. 6, 2013»Read Full Blog Post